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By Not Holding Bilateral Talks With Bilawal Bhutto, India Has Lost An Opportunity
By Sushil Kutty India in its capacity of rotating head of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) invited Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to the Goa SCO on May 4-5, but India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hadn’t decided on a bilateral with Bilawal Bhutto Zardari. So much for...
Extension Of ED Chief’s Tenure Is Still Puzzling
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Hounding the leaders of opposition, allegedly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Centre through Enforcement Directorate (ED), has reached an unprecedented level under directorship of Sanjay K Mishra, and hence his extension of service has been naturally opposed by the forces against abuse of power....
Sharad Pawar’s Planned Resignation Is Aimed At Dissenters In NCP
By Tirthankar Mitra All his life, Sharad Govindrao Pawar has been his own man. Be it walking out of Congress when defying Gandhi family was considered to be political suicide or coming out in support of top notch industrialist Gautam Adani recently thereby running the risk of fracturing anti-BJP...
Yogi Adityanath Taking Civic Bodies Poll In Up As A Referendum On His Rule
By Arun Srivastava Has it been some other time, the elections to the civic bodies in Uttar Pradesh might not have aroused so much of interest in the outcome of the electoral battle. But the two phase election being held on May 4 and 11 this time has virtually...
Many Hurdles Remain In Introducing Digital Currency In India
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has launched a pilot program to test its digital currency, the digital rupee, in India’s four largest cities. The program is intended to assess the feasibility of a digital currency in India and to better understand its potential use...
Bench ‘Hunting’ Continues To Hound Delivery Of Justice And Fairness
By K Raveendran Even five years after the historical ‘national duty’ press conference by four judges alleging undesirable practices including ‘bench hunting’, the problem continues to be the bane of Indian judiciary. All the four judges have retired for long, but many of the problems they raised persist, undermining...
NCP Needs A Strong United Leadership In The Event Of Sharad Pawar’s Exit
By Dr. Gyan Pathak With sudden announcement by Sharad Pawar to step down from Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) presidency may have surprised all, but it seems that his announcement was premeditated. He will be quitting as NCP chief, but will remain in politics at least for the next three...
Ukraine War And US, EU Sanctions Leading To Loss Of US Dollar’s Global Dominance
By Subrata Majumder A new landscape in currency dominance in global market is taking shape, with US dollar losing pre-eminence and Chinese yuan gaining steam. According to a IMF survey, dollar share in central bank foreign exchange reserves declined from 71 percent in 1999 to 59 percent in 2021....
A Year Before Lok Sabha Polls, BJP Walking On Thin Ice In Manipur
By Tirthankar Mitra An open air gymnasium being set on fire at Churachandpur merely 60 kilometres away from Manipur capital, Imphal followed by chief minister, N Biren Singh being advised not to come to the trouble spot are some of the ominous signs indicating that things are not at...
Poll Manifestos Of BJP And The Congress Have Little Appeal To Karnataka Voters
By Sushil Kutty Election manifestos gather dust. The statement of intent perhaps lost in translation, so to speak. The mostly disbelieving voters are asked to believe. The BJP released its Karnataka elections manifesto first. The Congress returned the favour on May 2. How do the two stack up against...
Big Spurt In GST Collections Indicates Growth In Domestic Economy
By Anjan Roy India has landed with a bumper GST collection in April this year, indicating thereby that however much some economists had seen serious weakness in performance, domestic economy is showing a robust trend. This year’s GST collections are roughly 20% higher than the corresponding period last year....
Madhur Jaffrey Is The First South Asian To Win James Beard Lifetime Award
By Harihar Swarup Madhur Jaffrey, 89, insists she’s is not actually a cook; just an actor playing the part. She was never trained as a chef, doesn’t chop her onions evenly, only cooks what a homemaker would for her family. (What she did study, she points out, is acting:...
Shaping The New World Order: Nation-State Versus Civilisational State
By James M Dorsey US President Joe Biden positions the Ukraine war as a battle between autocracy and democracy. That reduces what is at stake in the war. The stakes constitute a fundamental building block of a new 21st-century world order: the nature of the state. Russia’s invasion of...
Hollywood Rocked By Massive Writers’ Strike Forced By Studio Bosses
By Mark Gruenberg Hollywood, livestreaming, and motion picture studio bosses’ intransigence in bargaining and creation of “a gig economy inside a unionized workforce,” forced 11,000 members of the Writers Guild of America, who craft scripts for television, motion pictures, streaming videos and similar forms of entertainment, to strike at...
King Charles 111 Aims To Synergise Tradition With Modernity At Coronation
By Kalyani Shankar Viewers worldwide will witness the coronation ceremony of British King Charles and his Queen Camilla on May 6. The critical moment in modern British history will be 70 years after Queen Elizebeth11 coronation in 1952. Though Charles succeeded Queen Elizabeth 11 in September 2022 after her...
MVA Sweep In Maharashtra APMC Elections Boosts Its Image In Maharashtra
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Sweep of the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) in the elections held for Agricultural Produce Marketing Committees (APMCs) across Maharashtra, which is also considered as mini-general election, signals its return to power in the state which is going to be held in 2024, just a...
Farmers Of Karnataka Resolve At Their Meet To Defeat BJP In Assembly Polls
By Arun Srivastava Farmers of Karnataka, under the banner of Samyukta Kisan Panchayat declared an open war against the Narendra Modi government from Bengaluru and called upon the farmers who constitute 65 per cent of the total population of the state, to ensure the defeat of BJP, Narendra Modi...
Satyajit Ray’s Birth Anniversary: Three Encounters Of The Close Kind
By Nitya Chakraborty The Indian filmmaking legend Satyajit Ray stepped into his 102nd year on May 2, 2023. The maestro died in 1992, at the age of only 71. He left us without finishing many of the proposed film and writing projects which he had undertaken in his last...
